Example sentences of "[be] [noun prp] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remembering the Welsh love of nicknames , I said , ‘ Then you 'd have been Neil the Squeal . ’ |
| 2 | Simon the Stripping Vicar had also in his time been Simon the Sex Ton , the Curvy Curate and even the Randy Rabbi . |
| 3 | ‘ You 're Bravd the Hublander , are n't you ? ’ |
| 4 | Like you think you 're John the Baptist because an angel pointed at you . ’ |
| 5 | The voice replies : ‘ I am Jesus the Nazarean , and you are persecuting me . ’ |
| 6 | Notable are Holbein the Elder 's design for an altar in Augsburg Cathedral , figure studies attributed to Huber , Graf , Elsheimer , and Durer , and assorted Netherlandish works culminating in Rubens 's ‘ Rest on the Flight into Egypt ’ and nine Rembrandt pen and inks . |
| 7 | ‘ Hi , I 'm Clarence the Lion and that 's my number Why am I telling you ? |
| 8 | Similarly , Charlie 's incarnation as a Norse explorer among the Skroelings , ending when a man who seems to be Erik the Red took his crew and ‘ steered them for three days among floating ice , each floe crowded with strange beasts that ‘ tried to sail with us , ’ said Charlie , ‘ and we beat them back with the handles of the oars ’ surely relates to the long sea voyage , an account of which originally formed the bulk of the ‘ Death by Water ’ section . |
| 9 | I 'm Jake the steg , diddle iddle iddle um — but I ai n't got legs ! ! ! |
| 10 | What used to be Mayes the food shop . |
| 11 | Walahfrid 's " other one " who had enjoyed Alemannia before this , must be Louis the German whose marriage to Judith 's sister in 827 had created a strong axis of solidarity between this son and his father . |
| 12 | Pippin was assigned Neustria , but the two main beneficiaries were to be Louis the German and Charles , leaving Lothar with only Italy . |
| 13 | ‘ Not even if your intruder turns out to be Jack the Ripper . |
| 14 | And I say this to you : You are Peter the Rock ; and on this rock I will build my church , and the powers of death shall never conquer it . |
| 15 | ‘ Beauty depends on the multitude of its land owners ; for were Grasmere the property of one person , he might exterminate the wood in a spring ; but fifty men are seldom in one humour . |
| 16 | Foremost among his parishioners were Watkin the dung-collector and his wife , a woman built like a battering ram , hard-faced , with iron grey hair hanging down to her shoulders . |
| 17 | The two books were Gotama the Man ( sometimes spelt Gautama ) , and a splendidly substantial one entitled Sakya . |
| 18 | Being Sunday the school was deserted . |
| 19 | After that , I could have told her that you were Jack the Ripper and she 'd have believed me . |
| 20 | It was showing off , being Jack the lad . ’ |
| 21 | Among his teachers were Peter the Chanter , Peter of Poitiers , who commented on the Sentences of Peter Lombard ( as well as producing his own Five Books of Sentences before 1170 ) , Melior of Pisa and Peter of Corbeil . |
| 22 | ‘ Being Alex the showman he tries to pot a straight yellow one-handed and misses . |
| 23 | It is important to note that solicitors practising wholly overseas may go into partnership with foreign lawyers , whether RFLs or not but unless all the foreign lawyer partners are RFLs the partnership may not practise in England and Wales . |
| 24 | The last thing I remember is Matt The Tube from Jim Rose 's Circus Sideshow getting a loud cheer as he pulled a straw from his nose with a pair of pliers . |
| 25 | the second , I must get that ten pence off there , that 's June 's , that 's not bad and that one 's July but that 's March the second I should have remembered that today . |
| 26 | IT 'S RICHARD THE LOINHEART |
| 27 | Today is Friday , yes , it 's Friday the date today , what 's the date today the eighth ? |
| 28 | What 's Dennis the menace up to now ? |
| 29 | There 's Dennis the Menace upstairs |
| 30 | In Macbeth too there is a healing king , but offstage — it is Edward the Confessor , the last legitimate Anglo-Saxon king , who sends Siward Earl of Northumbria to assist the rebels . |